Rivers: No alliances with APC, Sowore’s AAC rejects Amaechi’s endorsements

by the All Progressives Congress
(APC), saying it has “no alliances or
coalition with the APC or any other
parties in Rivers state”.
At a meeting with APC supporters in
Rivers State on Wednesday morning,
Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of
Transportation and leader of the
APCin Rivers State and the South-
South, had pitched his tent with
Awara Biokpomabo, the AAC
governorship candidate in the state,
saying: “This morning, the leadership
of the party met and agreed that we
would work with a party called
African Action Congress (AAC), while
we are still in court to reclaim our
mandate.
“So, on Saturday (March 9), we will
vote for AAC. You must go home and
vote for AAC. There should be no
excuse not to vote, because there will
be security for everybody. You must
prepare and make sure you win the
governorship election.”
However, in a denouncement
conveyed in a press release signed
byits Deputy National Chairman
(Administration), Dr. Malcolm Fabiyi,
AAC said: “We were made aware of
the APC’s recent endorsement of the
AAC’s Rivers State gubernatorial
candidate in the forthcoming
elections on the 9th of March. Rotimi
Amaechi, the All Progressives
Congress (APC) in Rivers State, has
pitched his tent with Awara
Biokpomabo, our governorship
candidate in the African Action
Congress (AAC).
“While we have no influence over who
other parties might choose to
endorse, we wish to make it
unequivocally clear that we have we
not entered any alliances or coalitions
with the APC or any other party in
Rivers State, neither have we made
any decisions to dovetail parties or
seek strategic alliances as we
approach the state elections in a few
days.”
Fabiyi reassured the public that “the
AAC, led by Omoyele Sowore,
promised Nigerians a different style
of governance at the national level;
we also believe we can bring this
new promise of transparency and
progress to bear at the state level”.
“We urge all PVC-bearing Nigerians
to come out en masse on the 9th of
March and vote for transformation
and a true paradigm shift, the kind
that only the African Action Congress
can bring,” he said.